Search Stories
Now showing 6860-6870 of 9788 result(s)
(Fragment)Layoffs at Iroquois Indian Museum
by Betty Flood and Alyssa PlockThe employees of the Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, New York, have been notified by the board of trustees that the entire staff will be laid off as a result of Tropical Storm Irene. The financial problem reared its ugly head, despite the fact ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)How History Unfolds on Paper, Part I: The Eric Caren Collection
The auction highlight of the first part of Caren's collection was the 1674 manuscript authorization for Edmund Andros to take possession of New York from the Dutch, signed by Charles II, King of England. The magazine Manuscripts described it as "New York State's Birth Certificate." It is a letter signed ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Early Photography at Americana Sale Soars
A half-plate daguerreotype portrait of two hunters with game and a sleeping dog was the top lot of the early photography portion of the sale, bringing $18,960 (est. $1500/2500).A quarter-plate daguerreotype of students in a classroom fetched $15,405 (est. $1000/1500).A half-plate daguerreotype of an architect at work in his office ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Amendment to California's Secondhand Dealers Law Would Allow Seizure of Dealer's Inventory
by David Hewett"California is very much into getting income from everyone and anyplace it can find it now. We're in big-time debt." That came from Michael Ogle, co-owner of American Garage, a popular folk art business in Los Angeles.The debt problem was never acknowledged as the reason for the introduction ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)19th-Century Maritime Art
The inset is Buttersworth's "Madeline" and "Sappho" off Sandy Hook Lightship, oil on canvas, 30" x 40". It's also shown in the catalog with a closeup. The catalog is available from Monmouth University, Pollak Gallery, 400 Cedar Avenue, West Long Branch, NJ 07764. Price is $20 at the gallery, $30 ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Bid-Rigging Charges Dismissed
by Elizabeth DinanA judge has dismissed the charges that Portsmouth, New Hampshire, auctioneer Stephen Bennett rigged the bidding for a nautical painting. The judge's ruling stated that the New Hampshire attorney general's office, not the Portsmouth police, had exclusive authority to prosecute the case.Bennett was charged with three misdemeanors alleging ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Inaugural Sale for Cordier in New Facility
David Cordier took turns auctioneering with colleague Ellen Miller. Pass photo.This uncirculated 1911-D Indian head $2.50 quarter eagle gold piece was a highlight among the roughly 100 lots of coins. It sold for $7130.Cordier Auctions & Appraisals, Harrisburg, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassPhotos courtesy Cordier Auctions & AppraisalsDavid Cordier of Cordier ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Daughters of Mary Lose in Bouguereau Painting Lawsuit
On Monday, January 9, jurors in the Albany County (New York) Supreme Courthouse, hearing assertions that two art dealers conspired to defraud a group of nuns and their bishop out of a painting that was worth upward of $4.8 million, brought in their verdict.
The jurors chose not to believe ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Over $50 Million Worth of American Paintings Sold
This 32" x 25¾" oil on board by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), untitled (Still Life), signed and dated 1919, sold at Sotheby's, New York City, on December 1, 2011, for $3,218,500. Sotheby's photo.Illusion of a Prairie, New Jersey (Red Farm at Pochuck), a 30" x 40" oil on canvas by Oscar ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)American Indian and Western Art Sale
Shown are two plates from the portfolio The North American Indian by Edward Curtis (1868-1952), Volume 1: The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navajo, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1907. Lacking six plates, it included 33 of the 39 large-format photogravures on Van Gelder paper, loose in a 23" x 19¼" morocco portfolio, prefaced ... (Read More)
|
1 (800) 752-8521 • PO Box 1429 • Waldoboro, ME 04572
